am i losing the drive to create things for an increasingly alien and hostile world whose mounting taste for fascism feels like a cold metal vise around my skull or am i just lazy and unmedicated and looking for excuses
you may be thinking that some of the reactions to the tumblr update are unfounded or panicky. but i meant what i said: this will fucking destroy any artist on this site.
for your reference, i tracked down one of my original posts; which had a notes section that looked like this:
and here is what it looks like now:
holy shit. by my math, that is not even two percent of the amount of aggregate notes my writing actually has. i am not able to see any of the literal hundreds of replies, comments, or tags.
maybe this is a bit presumptuous but i consider myself to be fairly popular on this site. i still remember the first time a large blog "picked up" my work - how quickly all of a sudden i was getting seen. notes on my poetry jumped from like 10 to 300 to 3k. overnight. that was the magic of tumblr, and the incredible writing community i found here.
but now if i answer any of my fellow writers, if i say please go check this out or even if i add additional context to my own work - the artist is removed completely from their own content.
do you want to reply to an "ask game"? do you want to reply to a story prompt? do you want to just make a funny joke with your friends? well, that sucks - you might be depriving them of literally 98% of their notes.
it isn't about clout chasing. it is about giving creators control over their own materials. even a silly post deserves to be connected directly with the person that thought it up.
the tumblr feedback form is currently crashed for me, but when it's up, everyone please go (politely! calmly! like you're walking in a burning building!) tell them what you think. in the meantime: @staff @changes like... i am begging you. literally just set up a suggestion box for ideas on how to monetize tumblr, surely one of us can help you.
@staff @changes @tumblr genuinely how do you justify this? let me answer for you: you don’t. this is ridiculous, it is asinine, it is functionally deteriorating this app. We don’t just have “strong feelings” about this, we hate it. there is no benefit to creators here. i have seen multiple people JUST SINCE I WOKE UP TODAY saying they aren’t sure where they are going but that if this change stays, they’re leaving. Don’t let your hubris outweigh your commitment to your users. Cease this rollout and reverse it for those who already have had this BS shoved down their throat, or watch your app die a slow and painful death as the people who loved it leave because you give them no other choice. if you ask me, this is the easiest choice anyone could ever make.
for anyone else planning to add thoughts based on this post:
^^^ p.s. tumblr, this is an insane thing for rebloggers to have to start using just to make sure credit goes to where it is due.
”with our ai chatbot you can talk to your ocs!!” Dumbass. I’m already talking to them. In my head. “B-bbut what about your favourite charac-“ skill issue. In my head as well. get fucked.
the firs one is onto something because p much all the text in the original sims game is in comic sans, which is, weirdly funny considering how scary it can sometimes be
i actually got this call first while playing the newbie household when i was a wee little baby and i thought this actually going to happen but prank calls were a feature of the original game
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